Reply to post: Not Trickle-down economics...

Trickle-down economics works: SpaceShipTwo is a prime example

Allan George Dyer

Not Trickle-down economics...

The money sloshes around the top-end, among high-paid managers and consultants, but doesn't increase the number of toilet-cleaners required, or their wages.

However, trickle-down technology can work. Throw enough money at developing fancy devices with bright screens and long battery life, and you've developed a lighting system efficient enough to be run off a solar panel in some third-world village schoolhouse. But trickle-down technology can also fail, usually when someone insists on deploying the shiniest new tech, without considering how it will work at the delivery point... "With SpaceShipTwo, these villagers can deliver their chickens to market much faster, via SPAAACE!"

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